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torsdag, november 24, 2011

” … as every close observer of the deadlocks of
political correctness knows, the separation of legal justice from moral
goodness - which should be relativised and historicized - ends up in a
claustrophobic, oppressive moralism brimming with resentment.Without any “organic” social substance grounding
the standards of what George Orwell approvingly referred to as “common
decency” (all such standards are dismissed as subordinating individual
freedom to proto-Fascist organic social forms), the minimalist program
of laws intended to do little more than prevent individuals from
encroaching upon each other (annoying or “harassing” each other) turns
into an explosion of legal and moral rules, an endless process of
legalization and moralization, presented as “the fight against all forms
of discrimination.”If there are no shared mores in place to influence
the law, just the bare fact of subjects “harassing” other subjects, then
who - in the absence of such mores - will decide what counts as
“harassment”?”

[...]

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The ideological coordinates of such a liberal
multiculturalism are determined by the two features of our
"postmodern" zeitgeist: universalized multiculturalist historicism
(all values and rights are historically specific, any elevation of them into
universal notions to be imposed onto others is cultural imperialism at its most
violent) and universalized "hermeneutics of suspicion" (all
"high" ethical motifs are generated and sustained by "low"
motifs of resentment and envy - say, the call to sacrifice one's life for a higher
Cause is either a mask for manipulation by those who need war to sustain their
power and wealth, or else a pathological expression of masochism - and this
either/or is an inclusive vel, that is, both terms can be true at the same
time).

There is a problem with this liberal vision of which every
good anthropologist, psychoanalyst, or even perspicuous social critic like
Francis Fukuyama, is aware: it cannot stand on its own, it is parasitic upon
some preceding form of what is usually referred to as "socialization,"
which it simultaneously undermines, thereby cutting off the branch on which it
is sitting."

Inga kommentarer:

Spot on:

"All understanding of reality involves a commitment, a venture of faith. No belief system can be faulted by the fact that it rests on unproved assumptions; what can and must be faulted is the blindness of its proponents to the fact that this is so." - Lesslie Newbigin